When it comes to climate change, never let the facts get in the way of the money or the need for constant adulation from fellow cult followers. Here is an extract from a report written by a highly regarded scientist:
'... a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the circumpolar regions by which the severity of the cold, that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice, has been, during the last two years, greatly abated. Mr. Scoresby, a very intelligent young man, who commands a whaling-vessel from Whitby, observed last year that 2000 square leagues of ice, with which the Greenland seas between the latitudes of 74 degrees and 80 degrees N[orth] have been hitherto covered, has in the last two years entirely disappeared.'
That’s alarming ... until you find out when the report was written:
The author of and reason for the report? The world-renowned botanist Sir Joseph Banks was informing his Lordship Robert Saunders Dundas, the 1st Lord of the Admiralty, of his findings from a recent expedition.
If only Sir Joseph had known about the dire consequences that awaited the world from 'a considerable change of climate', he could have been the Al Gore of his time. But in all likelihood, no one would have cared. Why? Because the climate was, is, and will continue to change ... so what’s the big deal?
I may be scraping the bottom of the politically incorrect barrel but I'm sticking with Stuart Ballantyne. I especially like his advice to Greta.
